Fuchsia Definition

fyo͝oshə
fuchsias
noun
Any of a genus (Fuchsia) of shrubby plants of the evening-primrose family, usually with pink, red, or purple flowers hanging from the ends of the branches.
Webster's New World
Purplish red.
Webster's New World

A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

Wiktionary
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Onagraceae — Because of the red, pink or purple flowers these small shrubs are popular garden plants, fuchsias.

Wiktionary
adjective
Purplish-red.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fuchsia

Noun

Singular:
fuchsia
Plural:
fuchsias

Origin of Fuchsia

  • New Latin Fuchsia genus name after Leonhard Fuchs (1501–1566), German botanist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • After the genus Fuchsia, itself named after Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist.

    From Wiktionary

  • Named after the botanist Leonhart Fuchs.

    From Wiktionary

Fuchsia Sentence Examples

  • He had made his leap, he had seen the great world, and was content to stay in his pretty glass house under the big fuchsia tree until he attained the dignity of froghood.

  • Thus in fuchsia and Poinciana, it is red; in Adamia and Tradescantia virginica, blue; in Oenothera and Ranunculus acris, yellow.

  • A classic single fuchsia which is extremely easy to grow.

  • They are usually of a greenish colour (herbaceous); but sometimes they are coloured or petaloid, as in the fuchsia, tropaeolum, globe-flower and pomegranate.

  • Especially noteworthy are the Andine Acaena, Gunnera, Fuchsia and Calceolaria.

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